The US’s increase in gas production will grow 33 per cent between 1990 and 2015, where Australia’s gas supply will grow 265 per cent in the same period, writes Arnold. He points out that while the expansion in supply in the US has led to cheaper gas, in Australia prices have recently tripled.

Arnold cites a Council of Australian Governments review a decade ago suggesting that the east coast market for gas in uncompetitive, which noted “strong fears that this current lack of upstream competition will lead to much higher gas prices once current contracts expire over the next few years,” arguing that this is now the case.

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